Tom Lapidus
About
Tom Lapidus is from Greater Chicago Area. Tom works in the following industries: "Information Technology and Services". Tom is currently Vice President Information Technology - Americas, New Business and Global Marketing/E-com Technology at Barilla Group, located in Greater Chicago Area. In Tom's previous role as a VP of IT Americas, New business and IT innovation at Barilla Group, Tom worked in until Oct 2018. Prior to joining Barilla Group, Tom was a VP of IT Americas and Global Sales/Marketing Business Partner at Barilla Group and held the position of VP of IT Americas and Global Sales/Marketing Business Partner. Prior to that, Tom was a Director of IT Americas at Barilla Group from Oct 2008 to May 2012. Tom started working as Manager, Web, Network, Applications, and Infrastructure at Barilla in Bannockburn, IL in Oct 2006. From Apr 2006 to Oct 2006, Tom was IT Security Lead at OfficeMax. Prior to that, Tom was a IT Networking Lead at OfficeMax from Jan 2002 to Apr 2006.
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Tom Lapidus's current jobs
Vice President of the Information Technology team leading IT for North, South and Central America. CIO and Vice President of IT for Italian Kitchen/IKRG subsidiaries. Member of the Board of Directors of the Italian Kitchen Restaurant Group. Experienced in driving the company’s strategic vision by improving service levels, controlled costs,improved processes, and delivered upon continuous improvement initiatives. • Responsible for IT organization in North, South and Central America • Global IT responsibility for Company's New Business, and Marketing technologies center of excellence • CIO of the Italian Kitchen Restaurant Group • Active board member of the Italian Kitchen Restaurant Group • Leader of a global consumer, shopper and customer transformation • Leadership roll in the digitization of the company • Improved service levels among the organization • Experienced in negotiating contracts for a global organization • Reduced mobile and telecom spending by over 35% per year • Reduced overall budget while improving upon IT services • Led the integration of multiple countries to the global ERP (SAP) system while redefining business processes • Reduced costs and improved service by outsourcing and virtualizing the regional data center • Part of the leadership team tasked with creating a new IT global organization and strategy through the year 2020 • Implemented multiple cloud based SAAS solutions allowing for better scalability, flexibility and speed to market • Improved communications while reducing travel costs by implementing a regional program leveraging video, VOIP and other technologies • Led an innovation team recommending cutting edge sales and marketing solutions giving the corporation a competitive advantage
Tom Lapidus's past jobs
Vice President IT, new business and IT innovation globally.
Leader of IT supporting North, South, and Central America.
Manager of the web, network and infrastructure team for the Americas region of Barilla. Improved digital marketing development, virtualized a data center and improved day to day support and operations. Implemented a new support process streamlining requests, enhancements and projects • Created a company PMO for all new IT requests • Virtualized the data center reducing IT operations and hosting costs by 32% • Led a team to manage a 99.99 % uptime environment for the company, meeting all SLA • Cut web development costs 40% by implementing a hybrid development team utilizing internal talent combined with outside consultancy